Several researchers have developed models to predict corrosion rate in buried structures with good results using methods such as artificial neural networks, Monte Carlo to mention a few. This paper presents a novel approach to predicting corrosion rate in buried structures using...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/25564
Social work is a dynamic profession, which endeavors to adapt and interact with the surrounding societal circumstances and contemporary challenges. This article will focus on some contemporary trends in social work education and practices in Egypt, such as: authentication, commun...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/25882
This study compared Harm-Reduction Therapy (HRT) only with HRT and Motivational Interviewing (MI) as brief therapeutic techniques in controlling Alcohol-Related Problems (ARPs). It was hypothesized that there will be significant reduction in the occurrence of ARPs at each interva...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/26086
Thiago Andrade Macedo, Roberto Nery Dantas Júnior, Ismar Aguiar Marques Filho, Pedro Gabriel Melo de Barros e Silva, Liliane Gomes da Rocha, Bernardo Baptista da Cunha Lopes & Marcio Campos Sampaio·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2016
Carcinoid tumors are rare malignancies able to spread and produce bioactive humoral products, mainly serotonin, which is responsible for the Carcinoid Syndrome (CS); its features are: flushing, diarrhea, bronchospasm and valvular heart disease. The Carcinoid Heart Disease (CHD) i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25952
Introduction: Fracture of an acrylic resin complete denture base after aging, poses problem for patients, dentists and dental laboratory technicians. This study was performed to determine the effect of thermocycling on the flexural strength of a commercially available, heat-polym...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20517
Aims: Detect the incidence of urinary tract infection caused by candida species and to determine their antifungal susceptibility, biofilm formation and its minimal biofilm inhibitory concentration. In addition, detect the importance of multiplex nested polymerase chain reaction (...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25940
Aims: Malaria poses a medical and public health challenge in Nigeria. The burden of the disease has been a major source of concern to tourists in Uyo. Knowledge on the biting behaviour and the Human Biting Rates (HBR) are needed to assess the epidemiology of the disease and in es...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24301
Razack Osseni, Stephen Akoha, Marius Adjagba, Simon Azonbakin, Latifou Lagnika, Bonaventure Awede, André Bigot, Amadou Diouf, Raphaël Darboux & Anatole Lalèyè·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2016
Aim: To screen the acute and 28-days subchronic toxicity of the leaves aqueous extract of Carissa edulis (C. edulis). Design: Experimental and observational study. Place and Duration: Faculty of health sciences of Cotonou / Institute of Applied Biomedical Sciences of Cotonou, lab...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/26083
Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of towards pharmaceutical care for pharmacists working in community pharmacy in Alqassim region in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mthedology: Two hundred twenty four pharmacists were included using a pretested self administered...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23920
In this paper, exact solutions with bounded periodic amplitude to Kundu equation are obtained through transformation, direct integration method and trial function method when the parameters satisfy certain conditions. By the way, exact solutions for the derivative nonlinear Schrö...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/25570
The Homotopy analysis method is implemented by Golmankhanehi et al. to find the expectation and variance of the approximate solutions of the second-order random differential equations [1]. In this note, we reused the Homotopy analysis method to solve the same problem and we draw...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/25673
Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) enables a sender to outsource the encrypted files to a cloud server, while maintaining the ability to conditionally search over it without knowing the sensitive data contents. Prior work in this area has focused on single keyword search. Conj...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/25804
In this paper, by using the integral equality which is given in this work, we aim at establishing some new inequalities of the Simpson-like and the Hadamard-like type for functions whose second derivatives are φ-convex and quasi-convex.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/26309
Nor Fadhilah Kamaruzzaman, Ja’afar Nuhu Ja’afar, Mat Hussin Hani, Abdul Rahman Zaidah, Balaram Prabha, Ismail Asma, Kwai Lin Thong, Richard Goering & Kia Kien Phua·Journal of Applied Life Sciences International·2016
Aim: This study was conducted to ascertain, retrospectively, the genetic diversity and distribution of S. Typhi strains in Kelantan, isolated from patients with acute typhoid, asymptomatic carriers and environmental samples in Kelantan between the years 2002-2009. Methodology: Tw...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/25486
This paper presents a quantitative design procedure for electromagnetic interference (EMI) filters and investigates the effectiveness of the designed EMI filters in a digitally controlled boost power factor correction (PFC) converter. In most modern electrical equipment, the probl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26301